Africa’s health future hinges on its ability to finance and commercialise its own medical innovations, rather than rely on ...

The personal journeys, professional triumphs, and unique challenges faced by scientists, researchers, and innovators across Africa bring insightful stories of resilience, groundbreaking discoveries, ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...

In the face of geopolitical fragmentation, tightening aid budgets, and global systemic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, African leaders can no longer ignore the need to invest in science. As ...

UNESCO Windhoek Office, in partnership with Mindsinaction STEAM Centre, the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture (MEIYSAC), the Namibia National Commission for UNESCO, ...

In remarks at the beginning of a five-day virtual COVID-19 Africa Innovation and Investment Forum 2020, Ms. Songwe said Africa needs innovations to drive homegrown solutions out of the COVID-19 ...

Destiny Amenyedzi is using science and machine learning to solve a global problem. The native Ghanaian and Ph.D. student at the University of Rwanda is using AudioMoths (highly sensitive microphones) ...

The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), launched in 2004 by the U.S. National Academies and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 10-year effort to strengthen the ...